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'The solicitor leaked evidence': Mace accuses the prosecutor in her own cases on a national podcast
On June 19, 2025, on the PBD Podcast, Rep. Nancy Mace named Ninth Judicial Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson, the elected chief prosecutor whose circuit would handle the cases arising from Mace's own allegations, and accused her of leaking evidence, refusing to prosecute rape, and having 'inserted yourself into this investigation and … obstructed the investigation.' Wilson answered that her office was not running the investigation, SLED was, and said 'I have no idea what the Congresswoman is referring to.' The Post and Courier reported that when it asked Mace's office, repeatedly, for evidence of the obstruction claim, none was provided. The underlying allegations are unproven and contested.
The reporting credit here belongs to The Post and Courier, whose politics reporter Caitlin Byrd reviewed the podcast appearance and pressed Mace's office for substantiation.
On June 19, 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace appeared on the PBD Podcast, host Patrick Bet-David's show, and turned to the elected prosecutor for her home circuit. Ninth Judicial Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson is the chief state prosecutor for Charleston and Berkeley Counties: the office that would carry to trial any charges arising from the allegations Mace had been making since her February 2025 House floor speech. On the podcast, Mace named Wilson and accused her of crimes against the very cases connected to Mace.
Mace's full PBD Podcast appearance, published June 19, 2025. Her remarks about Solicitor Wilson are a segment within the interview; the quotes below are as reported by The Post and Courier.
What she said
On who she blamed for an evidence leak, as reported by The Post and Courier:
"I believe it was the solicitor who leaked evidence to people who shouldn't have had it. The solicitor, Scarlett Wilson is her name."
On Wilson's record and motives:
"[She] doesn't want to prosecute rape cases."
"She doesn't believe rape victims. She's got a political bias against me."
And the accusation Mace built her threatened lawsuit around, that the prosecutor had personally interfered with the case:
"I believe you can be sued. I don't believe you can be protected by qualified immunity because of the way you have inserted yourself into this investigation and have obstructed the investigation."
What the prosecutor said back
Wilson denied the claims. Asked by The Post and Courier to respond, she said:
"I have no idea what the Congresswoman is referring to."
Wilson's office made the structural point that frames everything else: the active probe Mace was describing belonged to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), not to the Solicitor, and solicitors prosecute cases only after a law-enforcement investigation concludes and an arrest is made on probable cause. Her office was not running the investigation Mace accused her of obstructing.
The Post and Courier reported that when it asked Mace's office, multiple times, for any evidence to support the obstruction accusation, none was provided.
The accusation, reversed
Mace told a national audience that Wilson had "inserted yourself into this investigation and … obstructed the investigation." By the public record, the person who had inserted herself was the one speaking: a sitting member of Congress and the self-described victim and complaining witness, in what reads as publicly branding the elected prosecutor for her own circuit a criminal, on no stated evidence per the Post and Courier, while that prosecutor's office was not even the agency running the case. It was the opening move of a months-long public campaign to discredit and remove the prosecutor in matters connected to Mace, see Mace vs. the Solicitor.
The underlying dispute is the subject of ongoing civil litigation and a separate SLED investigation. All allegations on every side remain unproven and contested: the men Mace named deny her allegations; Solicitor Wilson denies Mace's allegations against her; no underlying matter has been adjudicated. Nothing here is a finding of fact. For background see People in the Public Record and Scarlett Wilson.
Sources & related coverage:
- The podcast: Nancy Mace on the PBD Podcast (YouTube), published June 19, 2025.
- The reporting: Post and Courier, "U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace accuses Charleston's Republican prosecutor of obstruction in her assault case" (Caitlin Byrd).
- Wilson's denial, contemporaneously: Caitlin Byrd on X, "Solicitor Scarlett Wilson denied all of Mace's claims, saying her office is not involved in the investigation in question. SLED is the law enforcement agency investigating."
- Related: Mace vs. the Solicitor · 'Recuse themselves': the August 18 press release · Scarlett Wilson
